Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia

Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia::I’ve seen links to this in a few places, and I just wanted to do my part to increasing the page rank for when someone Googles for “Adobe Macromedia acquisition“. Call it Google-bombing if you will – I just can’t resist someone who translates Adobe’s corporate double-speak about why they acquired Macromedia into:

Dude, we just bought the only significant competitor to several of our flagship applications. We didn’t buy Macromedia, we bought the market.

Read for yourself – it just gets better!

3 responses to Daring Fireball: Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Adobe's 'FAQ' Regarding Their Acquisition of Macromedia

  1. Goblin says:

    Man the quote baloon things are really cool! did you make them yourself or did they come from someplace else?

  2. Rob Wall says:

    Glad you like them. I have to admit, though, that I did not create them. They are part of the Neuron theme for WordPress, and can be found at http://bluegator.org:66/devel/neuron

  3. Goblin says:

    Great thanks!

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